Made progress in understanding my awkward gear shift: Took apart the center console and detached the inner cable to the selector - everything feels good so reassembled. Then to check the cables, removed the nut and lever on top of the rod of the gear-shift-position sensor and still everything is ver...

Thank you for the link to the video -I kind of expect that I will need to remove the lever arm to get to this problem. I don't think I described my issue very well. The problem is that when I go to shift from Park into Reverse, it requires such a tug that most times the gear selector lever/handle go...

Just bought a 2005 XC70 and the automatic transmission select/shift lever is very awkward. I have to pull really hard to get it out of PARK and often the momentum carries it through to NEUTRAL when I want to get REVERSE. (Everything else on the transmission seems to work just fine.) I would love som...